#and the details and structure are so good!

[numerologica]

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● They're 12 and each of them is characterized by 3 things: element, quadruplicity & polarity. They represent one of the basic components of a chart along with Houses, Planets, Angles, Degrees and so on...

⎯ They can be described as 12 different characters in a movie, and embody specific traits and characteristics as well as different ways of seeing and interpreting reality.

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⚠︎ dates highlighted may vary yearly according to planet's transits

♈︎ ARIES (Fire, Cardinal, Yang) ⟶ March 21- April 19

active, bold, independent, courageous, energetic, purposeful, lively, athletic, enthusiastic, restless, competitive, ambitious, goal-oriented, headstrong, assertive, commanding, dominant, always striving for the better, individualistic, impulsive, adventurous, "I'm the first/number one/want to be the first", passionate, motivated, confident, determined, a leader, straightforward, straight to the point, impatient

♉︎ TAURUS (Earth, Fixed, Yin) ⟶ April 20 - May 20

calm, reliable, trustworthy, charming, slow, comfort-oriented, patient, persevering, relaxed, serene, comforting, pleasure-oriented, sensual, material, deeply physical, hard working, focused, resilient, silent strength, romantic, security-oriented, loyal, steadfast, consistent, stubborn, obstinate, devoted, faithful, dislikes change, grounded, money-oriented, dependable, solid, realistic, sensitive

♊︎ GEMINI (Air, Mutable, Yang) ⟶ May 21 - June 20

flexible, mental, scattered, rational, multifaceted, multitasking, playful, intellectual, curious, constantly juggling with new ideas, friendly, have a huge variety of interests, quick-witted, funny, seeking change, short term memory, forgetful, distracted, inquisitive, communicative, social, natural chameleons, fast-moving, adaptable, charming, cheerleading, having fun, seeking dopamine, chatters

♋︎ CANCER (Water, Cardinal, Yin) ⟶ June 21 - July 22

sensitive, intuitive, nurturing, introspective, caring, soothing, can read a room's energy, gentle, compassionate, self-protective, may hard to get to know, defensive, motherly/fatherly behavior, loyal, devoted, empathetic, dreamy, moody, imaginative, quiet, passive-aggressive, family/home oriented, receptive, guided by emotions, may seem aloof, impressionable, defensive

♌︎ LEO (Fire, Fixed, Yang) ⟶ July 23 - August 22

charismatic, bold, independent, courageous, playful, confident, determined, ambitious, individualistic, self-centred, seeking recognition, strong, willful, theatrical, extroverted, loves the spotlight, leaders, commanding, seeking luxury/pleasure, full of life, stable, loyal, dedicated, consistent, passionate, "I put my heart into everything I do", prideful, exuberant, noble, fierce, entertaining, headstrong, affectionate

♍︎ VIRGO (Earth, Mutable, Yin) ⟶ August 23 - September 22

organized, dependable, practical, grounded, intellectual, logical, structured, systematic, perfectionist, nervous, detail-oriented, analytical, meticulous, helpful, supportive, good at problem-solving, realistic, hard-working, committed, modest, nurturing, focused, efficient, easily worried, can see things from a lot of different perspectives, high standards, critical, judgemental, selfless, natural healers

♎︎ LIBRA (Air, Cardinal, Yang) ⟶ September 23 - October 22

diplomatic, alluring, sensual, balanced, harmony-seeking, aesthetic-oriented, loving, agreeable, intellectual, social, relaxed, likes attention and spotlight, people oriented, potentially people pleaser, seeing multiple sides at the same time, indecisive, charming, romantic, creative, fair, communicative, both rational and sensitive, good at reading rooms and adapting in them, empathetic, compassionate, moral

♏︎ SCORPIO (Water, Fixed, Yin) ⟶ October 23 - November 21

passionate, strong, sensitive, intense, deep feeler/thinker, stubborn, powerful/power-oriented, intuitive, silent, introverted, calculative, determined, ambitious, hard-working, devoted, obsessed, seductive, mysterious, magnetic, enigmatic, passionate, potentially big egos, intimacy-seeking, hard to get to know, decisive, fierce, protective, jealous, persistent, "I can't let go", confident, controlling

♐︎ SAGITTARIUS (Fire, Mutable, Yang) ⟶ November 22 - December 21

adventurous, pioneering, seeking new things, always planning something new, curious, enthusiastic, bold, passionate, philosophical, dynamic, passionate, adaptable, constant quest for knowledge, desire for change, freedom-seeking, wanderlust, funny, entertaining, honest, never taking anything too seriously, infectious laughter, magnetic "I take no bullsh*t" attitude, possibly arrogant.

♑︎ CAPRICORN (Earth, Cardinal, Yin) ⟶ December 22 - January 19

serious, stable, grounded, responsible, practical, hard-working, productive, efficient, authoritative, striving to control everything, good administrative skills, structured, analytical, organized, introverted, resilient, full of stamina, ambitious, high standards, perceived as cold/distant or unemotional, selective, honest, straightforward, cool under pressure, inspiring, tireless, steadfast

♒︎ AQUARIUS (Air, Fixed, Yang) ⟶ January 20 - February 18

inventive, out of the box thinking, intellectual, unstable, "I live by my own terms", progressive, rebellious, curious, social, unusual, independent, innovative, humanitarian, rational, perceived as distant/unreliable, detached, philosophical, seeing the big picture, focused on the collective, unafraid to challenge morals and authority, eccentric, nonconformist, obstinate in its ideas, indomitable

♓︎ PISCES (Water, Mutable, Yin) ⟶ February 19 - March 20

sensitive, empathetic, emotional, compassionate, spiritual, intuitive, warm, mystical, creative, imaginative, fantasy-oriented, possibly delusional, psychic, "I'm in the clouds", escapists, impressionable, humourous, adaptable, kind, gentle, "I see things as they could be", easily worried or paranoid, struggles with criticism, can have a victim-complex, spontaneous, emotionally intelligent, great listener

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[rongzhi]

ok ive taken a deep breath and steeled myself. what do you think of liu yu

I'm going to put this under a cut because I rambled a little, but I wanted to offer my detailed impression :P Rest assured! No tearing to shreds occurred. He remains intact.

Well, I didn’t know who this guy was, so I took myself to the ole Wikipedia and my first thought was wow! Look at those label names.

Second thoughts: Ooh, dancer. I'm looking forward to see how the dancing is (if he still dances).

I have heard of INTO1 but don't watch idol competition shows, but it's impressive that he placed first. I decided to listen to/watch two songs/performances: his first single, 靠岸, from 2019, and his most recent single from 2023, Focus.

靠岸 didn't seemed to have an official video, so I ended up watching a live performance from a show called Mr. Radio.

I was pleasantly surprised by this song! Seeing that he had been on Produce Camp, I was expecting a more pop kind of song, but this was a song I could imagine playing in the OT of a drama (in a good way!). I think his performance was a little shaky here, but I sense that maybe he was nervous? Either way, he seems a little shy here, where this song would really benefit from a powerhouse performance. Idk, maybe it was also a sound mixing issue. I like the song, though. Very pretty. I went to listen to the studio recording and it was a lot better—much closer to what I was hoping to get. The oooooh part sort of reminds me of a Zhou Shen song whose title I can't remember at the moment. It was space themed, though. (EDIT: the song I was thinking about was Cassini)

Next up!! Focus. I watched the Official Music Video on Youtube first.

Coming off 靠岸， I could see from the thumbnail that this song would be closer to the pop sound that I expected, so the things I was interested in seeing was the MV concept and the dancing. On first watch, I didn't really listen to the lyrics much, because there were no captions to read and I can't really tell what people are saying in pop songs anyway.

I have to admit that going into the video with the big gray space only, I thought it was pretty ugly at first. I just think that the CG structure on pale BG concept always looks cheap no matter who does it, though, and Liu Yu seems like a sort of tiny guy, so with all the dancers around him, I initially thought he looked a little swamped by them.

At 0:48 when we got a flash of the all-black cowboy look, again I was a bit disappointed, thinking that there wouldn't be much edge to concepts.

Then we got to the, I'm gonna say, test lab sewer gothic, and I thought "ok, at least that's something". It's definitely be done before but there's more production in that set and look, so at least the whole video isn't just going to be a gray void. The flash of Liu Yu standing in as his own princess was kind of interesting (disappointed this character never showed up in the music video again)

Now I know said I wasn't going to rip him to shreds and that's because....!!! When the beat dropped, I went "ok wait" lol. At 1:03, I witnessed evidence of stage presence and was like "oh we are so back, baby"

Still not a fan of the big pale space, and I think Liu Yu's charisma was most visible in the sewer gothic scenes and weakest in the scenes where he's wearing the silver ice skating outfit looking blouse, but maybe that's just because it distracts you with his little twig body. I personally can't buy into the energy of someone who looks like the most movable object on earth.

3:03 the "yuh" made me laugh tho

MV looks ranked (best to worst):

One thing that I didn't like about the MV (but understand is necessary) was that the video kept cutting right as I thought to myself "Oh, this is a nice bit of dancing", and I wish the shots had been wider on the dance moves instead of cutting him off at the ribs. A wider dance version in the sewer (I know that's not what it was but jhkalfjl) would've been appreciated by me. With that in mind, I decided to see if there was a dance performance video and there was! As suspected, the choreography in the beginning of the song is also just not that strong or compelling to me. It sort of gives intermediate hiphop 2 dance recital. My favorite part of choreo is the breakdown at 2:56.

Anyway, I hope these impressions were sufficient! I didn't check him out on any variety shows so I can't comment much on what I think about his personality, but from a music/performance standpoint, I think he's pretty good. Not really the kind of stuff I listen to anymore but if I still kept up with idols, maybe I'd check him out from time to time :)

#text #answered ask #liu yu

[aipilosse]

MORE beautiful art from a lovely anon! An illustration of chapter 19 - them being disgustingly in love and dancing at the wedding.

#their clothes are so pretty! #love the contrasting colors #and the details and structure are so good! #maybe Annatar should become a tailor full time in WBUT-verse #and Tyelps is looking at him so adoringly! #and Annatar somehow looks both sly and besotted which is perfect! #aaaaahhhhhh thank you thank you #sauron #Annatar #celebrimbor #silvergifting #what brings us together

[tomorrowandtomorow]

thinking about fma, one of the things i love about it is arakawa's very intentional worldbuilding. she never gave the story more than the plot needed. we don't get a bunch of flashbacks detailing the characters' lives, eveything that we know about them is only in service of the plot.

the xingese characters are there because they need the secret to immortality to gain their father's favor. and despite this being so interesting we don't really know anything else about them lol. how well do mei and ling know each other? how do their clans stand with one another? anything at all about their other siblings? they get like two interactions and other than the clans just generally hating each other we've got nothing. we don't even get anything about how lan fan even became ling's bodyguard.

then xerxes, a personal favorite of mine. ed and al are kind of casually confirmed to be descendants of a dead civilization renowned for alchemy. are we going to explore that civilization at all? ofc not. anything about hohenheim's past, other that the things you really need to know? nope. we're just generally gonna mention how he's known as a sage throughout both the east and west.

the fact that grumman is riza's grandfather? left untouched. the fact that roy studied under riza's father? you get one (1) flashback.

i love this style of worldbuilding tbh.

#it's so starkly different from other shounen #that will literally get into the details of supporting characters #this story is like nope not here #its so cohesive and structured thats why its soo good #fmab #fma brotherhood #fullmetal alchemist #edward elric #alphonse elric #riza hawkeye #roy mustang #fma

[cagedcats]

Been keeping an eye on the @whispering-clan blog a tad. Kind of inspired me to redo LostClan ngl. But also inspired me to try and make some puppy sprites.

But here you have a custom Bigpup/kit! :,D idk if I’ll do an apprentice, adult or elder sprite tho.

The kit sprite is just a random kit sprite that I yoinked

#caged sprites #? if that works idk how to title this one #whisperingclan #cryptidclaws #other people’s ocs #but could you imagine a dog mod for clangen??? #good lord the amout of sprites #like so many for long hair/short hair but then also sizes #small/medium/big sized dogs #it would be so much work good god #and idk if I’d do it the survivors style since it’s already not super… reliant on actual dog group structures #but eh fantasy and all that I suppose #I know there’s a Lion mod I am looking forward to tho 👀 the details and work that person is doing woof #anyway bye bye now

[goatsandgangsters]

favorite callbacks/foreshadowing payoff in A Power Unbound that made yell "oh goddammit" at my book

MY MOST SATISFYING "OH GODDAMMIT" MOMENT. FULL ON HAD ME PACING UP AND DOWN MY APARTMENT GOING "OH MY GOD THEY ACTUALLY DID IT, THE CRAZY SON OF A BITCH, THEY DID IT"

it wins #1 because this line always made me SO suspicious, but I also thought it was such a longshot. between the suspiciously specific phrasing of "blow up" and alan calling the lockroom easy to misuse in the same scene, my prediction was actually that the bad guys were going to do some fuckshit with the lockroom, because ART introduced us to the concept of "using hair to channel magic" and having a room full of everybody's hair seemed... uh, bad.

so I was just wrong enough to be delightfully shocked and just right enough to feel so satisfyingly smug. 10/10 felt terrific.

"adelaide tapping her ring" is SUCH a sneaky little detail. because she's tapping her ring all throughout a marvelleous light, and then sURPRISE it was the contract piece all along, beautiful bit of same-book foreshadowing, well done everyone go home

so when it showed up again in a power unbound, I was like "aw cute. I like that she's still got that little habit, even though it's not a Plot Relevant Foreshadowing Moment anymore, what a nice detail"

and then adelaide pseudo-flipped me off with her ring finger and went SURPRISE, GOT YOU TWICE, WHAT WAS THAT ABOUT MY PLOT RELEVANT RING?

this one didn't take me by surprise, but it's exactly what I love about reading a careful and deliberate writer.

this is in the same scene where we find out about jack's secretbind. so when I read it, I thought "okay well, we just found out he has A Mouth Thing. but he subconsciously touches his leg as well as his mouth, so probably he has A Leg Thing too." and then did a quick "probably from the war, right? seems most likely" and felt confident I knew that Jack had some kind of leg injury long before A Power Unbound even came out

and it's just SO FUN, because when you have a really good writer like this, you get the absolute joy as a reader of reading One Single Sentence and going "I see you, I know that means something." it's delightful, it's my favorite kind of puzzle, it's so rewarding

the way robin gets super uncomfortable with the penhallick crowd gossiping about what happened to jack and then changes the subject to magical people born into unmagical families who never discover their magic

the way jack and alan are linked together through this one worldbuilding-during-dinner conversation from two books ago. beautiful. profound.

and finally. my grand final of moments that made me go OH!! FUCK!!—

that's the first mention of jack by name, ever, at all, in the entire series.

that is the very first detail we ever learn about him.

AND THEN HE DID IT AGAIN, AFTER ALL THOSE YEARS OF NO MAGIC, AND I WAS SO PROUD, AND I LOVE HIM SO MUCH, AND ALSO I HUCKED MY BOOK ACROSS MY BED.

HIS FIRST MENTION AND HIS FIRST ACT OF MAGIC AFTER OVER A DECADE, crying, crying forever, we have come full circle

#a power unbound #the last binding #the benefit of being a Jack Stan is that I........ may have reread every scene/mention of him in AML and ART like. a lot #a lot a lot. I had a long wait okay? #I had to savor every little crumb of detail #enough that these things were just emblazoned in my brain #and I was yelling oH!!!!!!! so goddamn much #and of course there's a milliondy other wonderful throwbacks because GOOD STORY STRUCTURE #but these are My Favorite and the ones that were the most satisfying to me personally

[theswedishpajas]

The man truly can’t take a genuine compliment 🙄

#my art stuff #digital art #baldur's gate 3 #bg3 #astarion #astarion ancunin #this is part of a series I like to call “I’m never settling on a singular detailed artstyle” #I have no consistency in drawing realistic people/characters other than my shapy cartoon style #but I truly don’t get enough opportunity to properly shade anything with art in that style-!!! it always looks weird to me-!!!!! #I think some rude lil worm in my brain is wriggling around telling me it’s a futile attempt at still doing realism #cus I’m one of those “gifted” artists that grew up promising his parents he’ll end up among the big names or whatever #constantly training to become better at art but with realism oil paintings as the goal #you know how it is 😔 #I wanna shade my lil funky designs but they never feel good enough to really put energy into or whatever so I compromise with stuff - #- like this where I try to draw characters more accurately while still stylizing them and shading them however I feel like it #which is great and all but I should really learn to give my more relaxed and less perfectionist art a chance #I deserve to enjoy the process and the result without working myself dead #it’s so much easier and rewarding to copy cartoon styles - stylizing realism makes me too anxious of doing it “wrong” #at least cartoon styles give me a goal to reach or a reference to strive towards #man I really should just cut myself some slack altogether #either way - this man is a flustered mess and he’s embarrassed about being called adorable in public or something #being teased in an affectionate way about his sweeter side and stuff #don’t ask why he’s shirtless - anatomy is just a lot more fun for me to draw sometimes #tasteful nudity and all that is extremely gorgeous to me #i need to practice anatomy more cus I just kinda did some shit and went with it this time with a BIT of consideration for muscle structure

[bittersweetresilience]

it feels cosmically unfair that i think about writing all the time want to write all the time and sit down to write all the time and i come up with two sentences at best. there should be some reward system i think

#RAAAAAAAAAA #the thing is i know why i'm stuck it's because i get overly wrapped up in meaningless details of word choice and sentence structure #and i need every word to be perfect before i can move on to the next and that just creates an interminable cycle of being so slow to #progress i feel like even more like a failure and imperfect and respond by being even more intense about it #in spite of the fact that almost no reader is going to look at my work and go hey nice i noticed you used a word with an aesthetically #pleasing number of letters here as opposed to a word ending in t which would have ruined the flow and disgusted me forever #but it's not about the readers i'm the one who reads it and gets disgusted forever #and i know this does not matter but it feels like there is no conceivable way i could write something without it being perfect first try #fucking hilariously i edited the tags of this post for a good ten minutes because the spacing of the words was bothering me so i had to #find words with different lengths as replacements #RAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA #anyway i'm doing wonderfully #this is about soulmate au i think maybe because it's so important to me i'm especially perfectionistic over it right now #brain can you stop it i'm on my hands and knees #also t is the worst letter invented hands down. no question.

[zvaigzdelasas]

There's probably a viable pathway into career software development by starting as a QA tester - especially if you demonstrate basic proficiency w like python or javascript (node)

#qa rly just means 'professional software user' #so if yr good on the computer but not necessarily at coding you can probably do it fine #excel experience would prob help too #particularly a lot of like e2e/full integration tests are pretty disconnected from the details of the codebase #like in web stuff its rly abt understanding html structure & ids/class names more than anything to do w js

[tabooiart]

specialest little guy on the planet

#my art #fanart #starlight express #stex #rusty the steam engine #rusty starlight express #rusty stex #ive always struggled with rustys design. his costume is so detailed but im not gonna lie. im not drawing all that #happy with this drawing of him tho!!! #based his facial structure off of my good close friend michael-demby cain #is this what the kids call a fc?

[sophaeros]

doing a breakdown/analysis of how one of my fav fics does scene transitions for funsies and film has actually ruined my brain i keep describing things as "motivation to cut" (im right tho)

#sophaerostxt #writing #video editing #im not very good at doing scene transitions a lot of my work iirc is just one scene described in loving detail #but op is soo good at efficiency in narration i'm fascinated #anyway read the italian job by stereobone yum emoji #gorgeous gorgeous fic i've read it so many times #enchanted by op's sentence structures and rhythm

[bookwyrminspiration]

what kind of exam puts the big essay question in the middle??? what kind of hell world am I living in

#quil’s ​unholy underworld #found this in my drafts from earlier today #took a very shitty exam this was only one problem with it #it was 13 questions. 1 essay question #and it was question 5 out of 13??? #and we weren't allowed to go back once we'd answered a question #i already complained to my mom about it but maybe i'll do so here again #the questions weren't. weren't even about the content of what we've been reading the past 5 weeks?? #it was about a bunch of fucking tiny details #like 'which of these four authors was part of the english depart at this school?' #which like. yes we did mention that. but ONCE. and yes knowing author's backgrounds and accomplishments #especially from marginalized communities is also good #but thats??? not at all what we've been mainly focusing on??? #we've been focusing on and analyzing their WRITING #for 95% of class every single class #WHY are we not drawing from that on the exam #I don't fucking know that one singular detail mentioned once in the documentary we watched once and can't access on our own!! #i didn't know I needed to memorize the smallest shit!! #the teacher is nice and the class is enjoyable but my professional (i've been a student for years) opinion is that that's not a good #exam structure

[moderatetoaboveaverage]

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#went down a wikipedia rabbithole tonight and learned some chilean history #specifically around project cybersyn #President Salvador Allende #and the 1973 Military coup #and uh #fucking tragic #i think ive existed in a strange(? maybe its actually relatively common idrk) position as an American leftist where like #the crimes of american imperialism feel so innumerable to where at a certain point you stop learning about them on purpose #so like for years ive 'known' that what the USG has done to South America was awful #i 'learned' about honduras and so I just applied that as a template and went 'yeah some awful shit happened and its the CIAs fault' #but uh getting a bit more detailed knowledge about what our government did in chile has made me realize how callous that was #i dont know that ive nessecarily earned my previous attitude of 'cold detached and depressed' given #that not only did I not live through any of it but also that it was done in my benefit #god maybe this is some milquetoast shit #idk #I think being a leftist in the US is having to fight the passivating force of imperialism constantly #like lose sight of it for a second and it just fucking blends back in with the landscape #the internally defensive structure you build in your brain to protect yourself from complete emotional collapse while buying food #will equally be effective in ignoring the role of imperialism in everything else #anyway #I think this is perhaps a good opportunity to learn more about the other crimes the USG has committed in South America #to actually know the names and pronunciation of the deomcratically elected socialist leaders we deposed and what they really wanted to do #to know how their people felt and thought about things rather than imposing my own assumptions onto a reigon I am utterly ignorant of #it is embarrassing now to know the fullness of history I have ignored #Salvador Allendes words really fucking got to me and to think that there are men like him who I cannot even name is really disappointing #im going to stop self flaggellating and see about that reading #just my thoughts #feeling a little blue tonight

[imaginary-land-scapes]

truly the only time i miss twitter is on oscars night. I have THOUGHTS about these red carpet looks (and I can't be arsed to find and reblog pictures with commentary lmao)

#time for a tag novel: #andrea reisbrough (sp?) was giving scotch tape #cynthia erivo's dress was an absolutely beautiful color but the silhouette was elephantine #i applaud ariana for going big and structural but... the affect was College Duvet #every man except Eugene should go home and try again #margot's escaped from pink jail good for her #anya taylor joy's look was interesting but somehow accentuated her afghan hound-ness in an uncanny way #zendaya is so rarely a miss for me but a miss it was I did not like the tropical #lupita looked STUNNING i love the details and the restrained peplum outline #michelle yeoh CHIC AS HELL and sexy gloves to boot! #jodie foster was giving mother of the bride #emma stone ..... fine? unrestrained peplum and interesting texture but i'm super not sold on the color #da'vine's dress should have been giving cheerleader but she somehow escaped it and looked frickin RAVISHING one of the best looks imo #so many men had terribly wrinkled suits and ill fitting shirts WHAT is going on?!!! #i don't know who dj kiss is but her look is also top 5 for me #last thing #emily blunt's shoulders left me speechless and not in a good way #girl what the hell was that dress and why??? #okay actual last thing carey mulligan looked good as hell the gloves really did it for me this year #also shout out to all the women with the thigh slits y'all looked hot as fuck and i'm gay :) #oscars #red carpet #lmao

[irregularbillcipher]

one thing i will say while i’m on this weird legally blonde the musical kick is that while i think nearly every change the musical makes is for the better, the one that i really dislike is making chutney windham into a complete joke. the awkwardness and tension of elle stumbling at first in the movie is genuinely great, and linda cardellini puts on such a great performance with the tiny amount of time she’s given

the structure of the original scene, where elle is clearly barely treading water and kind of drowning while questioning chutney, who is calm but not cocky or annoying, until the perm comes up and elle finds her footing and turning into this tense thing where chutney realizes what elle is getting at and starts tearing up as the questions get more accusatory, desperately going, “she’s my age, did she tell you that? how would you feel if your father married someone who was your age?” before finally breaking down with the iconic “i didn’t mean to shoot him! i thought it was you walking through that door!” is just so much more memorable and so much better than making chutney into this weird nasally comic relief character and having the whole scene be this romp where elle is totally confident and the script keeps cracking jokes. it’s so weird that every other change is so good and yet this change for this pivotal scene is so bad

#before anyone goes ‘oh so the gravity falls fan prefers Linda cardellini’ yes yes I’m walking into this one but I am CORRECT #also a small change but in the musical Elle’s delta nu sisters make fun of chutney’s perm to really drive home #that chutney is meant to be an Annoying Ugly Joke Character #but in the movie elle actually complements chutney’s perm by saying her friend wasn’t suited to perms #because she ‘doesn’t have chutney’s bone structure’ and I like the detail of elle still paying chutney a complement #idk! it’s so weird! every other change is so good but this one falls so flat for me

[darkfinch]

i have to ask. why do you not like clane crawford

you MISUNDERSTAND FUNDAMENTALLY

i do not know him as a person, so i can't like him Personally, but i enjoy mr crawford very much as an actor; i think he's very good at what he does and i appreciate the unique chaotic all-in energy he brings to his baffling filmography. i am enjoying his 500 dollar indie movie era and the SECOND that the integrity of joseph chambers (or, as my dad calls it, "the honour of jonathan whatshisname") Becomes Streamable i will be streaming it in whatever legal way i can. he has good hair. cool guy

the "i can't perceive this dude" vibes are just like.....like you know how you watch someone give an interview and they've obviously got a prepared, media-appropriate headspace they've slipped into + carefully curated established barrier between Real Self and Publicly Perceived Self? customer service persona? and they'll naturally curate their energy and the things they say to come across a certain way? they're prepared? they know what they're saying and doing and what they're trying to present to you?

mr crawford does not do this

mr crawford just says words. he just says words you cannot ask him about anything he will either sound like a cop who's just discovered the concept of introspection, a man who is actively counting down the seconds until he can exit the interview, or a normal fucking Guy who has completely forgotten that he's being recorded. it's too much i can't do it

like he is SO PASSIONATE about the things he talks about he is KNOWLEDGEABLE he LOVES MOVIES but also i cannot trust that he won't just toss a That's Altogether Too Much Raw Information bomb into the centre of the convo at the drop of a hat. he says so much and i don't need to learn the things he is saying, it's not that it's Bad information it's just that i would like to know less. don't tell me this <3

i like him tho i want the best for him i hope he stops doing nfts

#that's too many words but like #a friend kept sending me interviews of this guy like ''whats wrong with your guy'' and so i have discussed this issue previously at Length #he tells u too much abt him. if the question is ''what are some good movies'' you cannot start detailing like.... #your clearest early childhood memories and your difficult relationship with your biological father and how like.... #the guy who introduced you to movies was very kind except you didn't really think about the structure of the story you were telling until #you reached the end and now you're contemplating the inherent ingratitude of childhood and how little you appreciated or #processed the generosity of this person and also your story doesn't have an ending. don't do that to me. go tend cows #finchtalks